British Kids Discuss Jeff Koons

In this adorable 3-minute documentary, filmmaker Mike Figgis captures a group of really sharp British students discussing an inscrutable conceptual sculpture by Jeff Koons.[

/youtube]Two morals: First, experiencing and discussing art is clearly really valuable as a mental exercise and we deprive kids of that opportunity at our peril. And second, English kids are crazy articulate, even with a Liverpudlian accent. You can see more of Figgis's three-minute sculpture conversations on the Tate YouTube channel.